Etymograph

English

velamentous

Velamentous comes from Latin velamentum ‘covering, screen’, and perhaps goes back to Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weǵʰ-1‘to bring’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wekslom1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlum1‘a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlō1‘to cover, veil, conceal’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvelamentum2‘covering, screen’
  6. Englishtodayvelamentous2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin velamentum
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English velamentous

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weǵʰ-Wiktionary, Latin velamentum‘to bring’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wekslomWiktionary, Latin velamentumreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlumWiktionary, Latin velamentum‘a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlōWiktionary, Latin velamentum‘to cover, veil, conceal’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvelamentumWiktionary, English velamentous‘covering, screen’
  6. EnglishtodayvelamentousWiktionary, English velamentous

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring’

way, always, via, vehicle, wave, halfway, weigh, wagon, wee, vogue, vector, wedge, vein, headway, wag, wonky, eunuch, vex, wey, waw, wain, venous, invective, vena, 39 more

through Latin vēlum ‘a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning’

reveal, veil, velar, 9 more

Today it means

adj Veil-like.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “velamentous”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin velamentum. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- / velamentous

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